CFP:International Conference on Honour Related Conflicts in Copenhagen

Posted on September 10, 2018 by Madisun

Extended call for paper

International Conference on Honour Related Conflicts on the 22nd and 23rd of November 2018 in Copenhagen

Notice: Due to many requests, we are delighted to announce that the abstract submission deadline for the conference has been extended to the 17^th of September!

The conference aims to bring together leading researchers and research scholars from all of Northern Europe to exchange and share experiences and research on different aspects of so called honour related conflicts.

Our hope is that the conference will help sharpening access to and understanding of what we define as honour related conflicts. In order to strengthen the overall research field the conference deliberately strives to open the door for reflections and different perspectives from adjacent research areas. In doing so, we hope to gain insights into research that can help nuance the understanding of the field and contribute with new angles and interpretations of the subject and its context in a northern european country.

Therefore, we call for everyone across disciplines to join us with your aspects. Submit your paper to akhj@siri.dk no later than the 17^th of October.

Register, and view the programme as well as the call for paper here!

NB: It is not required to contribute with a paper to attend either of the two conference days. Deadline for registering is the 22^nd of October.

Best regards

Katrine Juul Dyrlund

Fuldmægtig

Division for Prevention and Civic Citizenship

Phone: +45 72 14 28 39

E-mail: kjd@siri.dk

Ministry for Immigration and Integration

Danish Agency for International Recruitment and Integration

Philip de Langes Palæ

Strandgade 25 C

1401 København K

DENMARK

Beyond Accommodation: Everyday Narratives of Muslim Canadians

Posted on September 10, 2018 by Madisun

THE IDEA OF EUROPEAN ISLAM, by Mohammed Hashas, Routledge 2019

Posted on September 10, 2018 by Madisun

Dears,

I am very happy to share with you my news; my new book is in print officially from today 07 September 2018: The Idea of European Islam: Religion, Ethics, Politics and Perpetual Modernity, Routledge Islamic Studies Series, © 2019, pp. 330.

The book is prefaced by professor Jocelyne Cesari, Georgetown University and University of Birmingham.

A Preview of the book (the Introduction, and summaries of chapters) is here in pdf: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781351604017

The official page of the publisher is here: https://www.routledge.com/The-Idea-of-European-Islam-Religion-Ethics-Politics-and-Perpetual-Modernity/Hashas/p/book/9781138093843

Review copy could be requested from here: http://pages.email.taylorandfrancis.com/review-copy-request

Reviews

Mohammed Hashas’s book points to ways to break away from essentialized and inverted perceptions of Islam and Muslims by focusing on the original thinking of European Muslim thinkers who are providing new theological responses to address the specifics of European Muslims, therefore taking a much needed distance from Middle Eastern and/or salafi religious discourses. His work discusses the specificity of European Islamic thinking and emphasizes the importance of considering it as seriously as we consider thinkers in the Middle East or Asia.

Jocelyne Cesari, Georgetown University and University of Birmingham

In this meticulous and frequently brilliant study of the ideas, practices and precedents of European Islam, Mohammed Hashas illuminates and engages intellectual landscapes at the intersection of geography, theology, philosophy and politics. This book deserves a wide readership. After the dust settles, and it always does, The Idea of European Islam will remain on bookshelves and syllabi for years to come.

Jonathan Laurence, Professor of Political Science, Boston College

In a serious effort to capture the contours and details of European Islam, Mohammed Hashas provides an engaging account of several Muslim thinkers in Europe. He provides a theory to discuss the content of Muslim moral philosophy, theology and politics in conversation with leading thinkers based in Europe and those outside the continent in a search for solutions. Provocative as well as engaging. Anyone interested in one of the most important questions regarding the future of Europe in an age of migration and technological acceleration will find this to be an important book.

Ebrahim Moosa, Professor of Islamic Studies, University of Notre Dame, USA.

Thank you very much for sharing the news among the concerned in your contacts. Looking forward to reading the book’s scholarly reception!

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Kind regards,

Mohammed HASHAS, PhD (محمد حصحاص)

Adjunct Professor

LUISS Guido Carli University, Rome

Profile: http://luiss.academia.edu/MohammedHashas

Author of:

The Idea of European Islam: Religion, Ethics, Politics and Perpetual Modernity (Sept. 2018)

Imams in Western Europe: Developments, Transformations, and Institutional Challenges (co-ed. 2018)

Islam, State, and Modernity: Mohammed Abed al-Jabri and the Future of the Arab World, (co-ed. 2018)

Intercultural Geopoetics in Kenneth White’s Open World (2017)

Book release: Imams in Western Europe: Developments, Transformations, and Institutional Challenges. Hashas, de Ruiter, and Vinding (eds), Amsterdam University Press, 2018

Posted on May 17, 2018 by Madisun

Dear friends and colleagues,

We are happy and proud to announce the publication of this new edited volume, which might be of interest to some of you. Apologies for cross-posting.

Hashas, Mohammed, Jan Jaap de Ruiter, and Niels Valdemar Vinding (eds), Imams in Western Europe: Developments, Transformations, and Institutional Challenges. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2018 doi: 10.5117/9789462983830/ch01

http://en.aup.nl/books/9789462983830-imams-in-western-europe.html

This book presents an omnibus academic inquiry into contemporary Islamic religious authority with a focus on imams and the imamate – on which, until now, not much has been written in English. Our ambition is to contribute deeper and more fruitful analyses of the changes and challenges experienced by this source of religious authority in the context of the secular-liberal societies of Western Europe since the Second World War and the subsequent migration and refugee flows. At the same time, this research also serves to highlight secular-liberal institutions and their adaptation, or lack thereof, to the multiculturalism that characterizes Western European states. The social facts of globalization, transnational migration, and various interpretations of secularism have challenged the visibility of religion in the public sphere in Western societies. This has most importantly and urgently required religious authorities to revisit their organization, governance, and internal hierarchy, and Islamic religious authority is no exception. Throughout the Muslim-majority countries and in Europe, Islamic religious authority is still struggling to negotiate its place among the institutions of the modern state in the ‘secular age’ in the words of Charles Taylor (2007). The imamate is one of the institutions that are currently experiencing a shift of roles and functions in society. Scholars and historians of religion in particular are attentive to this shift.

“This fascinating book on imams in Western Europe is well timed to respond to the European discourse on Islam and Muslims, coming at a time of remarkable developments in the imam as a concept, as a religious institution, and as an authority for the Muslims of Western Europe.” – Jørgen S. Nielsen, Professor, Universities of Birmingham and Copenhagen.

The book is the result of our conference on imams from 2014, held in Rome at LUISS Guido Carli University & John Cabot American University

Here is a link to the introduction, preface and list of contents: https://www.academia.edu/36638452/Imams_in_Western_Europe_-_Developments_Transformations_and_Institutional_Challenges

On behalf of editors and contributors,

Niels Valdemar Vinding

Buddhism & Australia 2019: Call for Papers

Posted on May 17, 2018 by Madisun

The 8th International Conference Buddhism & Australia

’History, current presence and future directions for Buddhism in Austral-Asian region’

7-9 February, 2019

The IC Buddhism & Australia is pleased to invite abstracts for panel sessions and individual papers for the 8th International Conference Buddhism & Australia that will be held on 7-9 February 2019 in Perth, Western Australia.

This conference investigates the history, current and future directions of Buddhism in Australasia and is a platform for scientists and Buddhists to present their latest researches on Buddhism. Researchers across a broad range of disciplines are welcomed as well the submission of pre-formed panel proposals.

The main themes of the Buddhism & Australia 2019 are

*Buddhism and its History in India

*Buddhism and its History in Sri Lanka

*Buddhism and Computers

*Buddhism in Our Days Tibet

What to Send

Proposals may be in Word or RTF formats with the following information:
*author(s);
*affiliation as you would like it to appear in program
*email address,
*title of proposal,
*body of proposal; no more than 300 words,
*up to 10 keywords.
*CV max 2 pages

Proposals should be submitted by October 20, 2018 by the following email: info@buddhismandaustralia.com
If a proposal is accepted for the conference, a full draft paper should be submitted by December 20, 2018. We acknowledge receipt and answer to all proposals submitted.

Registration
To participate in the 8th International Conference Buddhism & Australia, please contact Marju Broder by the following email: info@buddhismandaustralia.com

For more information: www.buddhismandaustralia.com

Marju Broder
Organizing Chair
Mob + 610405549923
info@buddhismandaustralia.com
www.buddhismandaustralia.com

Registration for NCSR 2018 is now open!

Posted on May 17, 2018 by Madisun

The 24th Nordic Conference in the Sociology of Religion (NCSR 2018) ~ 1-3. August 2018.

Dear all,
Conference registration to the Nordic Conference in the Sociology of Religion 2018 is now open! Welcome!

The total conference fee is 1830 NOK. Please note that registration is divided into two separate payments and will take place in two steps. Step 1: Registration fee (900 NOK), Step 2: NJRS subscription (848 NOK). Both payments must be made before you are registered as a participant at the conference.

Accompanying persons, who would like to attend the reception, fjord cruise, and conference dinner, are warmly welcome. They only need to complete Registration Step 1 (900 NOK).

Please note that all paper presenters must register and pay their fee by June 15th, otherwise their right to present their paper is withdrawn.

The total conference fee includes:

Access to all scientific events at the conference
Welcoming reception hosted by the City of Oslo July 31st
Lunch and coffee/tea/fruit Wednesday, Thursday and Friday
Evening fjord cruise with shrimp buffet on Wednesday (drinks must be purchased individually)
Conference dinner on Thursday evening
A two-year subscription of Nordic Journal of Religion and Society (issue 2/2018-1/2020)

In order to register and pay your conference fee, please click on the link below:

Best wishes,
Netta Marie Rønningen and the NCSR Organizational Committee

Workshop on religious urbanization in Africa, 11 May

Posted on May 17, 2018 by Madisun

Moral economies of ‘development’ in urban Africa

An international research workshop funded by the British Academy/Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) through the RUA project and hosted by SSPSSR, University of Kent

Friday 11 May 2018 | The Common Room, Cathedral Lodge, Canterbury, Kent

Programme:

https://rua-project.ac.uk/international-symposium-may-2018/

Places are free, but limited. To book a place and for further information:

please email: ruaproject@kent.ac.uk

This interdisciplinary symposium brings together scholars from three continents to discuss the intersections and tensions between moral economies of ‘development’, religious urbanisation and social change in contemporary Africa. How are visions of the ‘ideal city’ materially articulated in religious imaginaries, experiences and concrete urban developments? What kind of centralities and peripheries are produced and reproduced through mega-urbanisation and religious place-making? How should development policies and analyses take account of religious dynamics and religious actors in African urban contexts?

Speakers include:

Simon Coleman (University of Toronto)

Immaculata Nwokoro (University of Lagos)

Paul-Francois Tremlett (Open University)

Xavier Moyet (University of Toronto)

Aurélien Mokoko-Gampiot (GSRL/CNRS, Paris)

Ben Jones (University of East Anglia)

Marloes Janson (SOAS, London)

Gareth Millington (University of York)

Thomas Akoensi (University of Kent)

Organiser:

David Garbin (SSPSSR, University of Kent)

Places are free, but limited. To book a place and for further information:

please email: ruaproject@kent.ac.uk

Approaching Religion (Vol. 8/1) published: The history of modern Western esotericism

Posted on May 6, 2018 by Madisun

Dear Colleagues,

We are happy to announce the publication of Vol. 8/1 of our journal Approaching Religion.

Theme: The history of modern Western esotericism
Guest editors: Dr Tiina Mahlamäki & Dr Maarit Leskelä-Kärki

You find the journal open access at https://journal.fi/ar

AR is an open access journal published by the Donner Institute. Its purpose is to publish current research on religion and culture and to offer a platform for scholarly co-operation and debate within these fields. The articles have been selected on the basis of peer-review.

Thanks for the continuing interest in our work,